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CONTINUOUS & COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT

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Third Language

ENGLISH - PAPER - I

X CLASS

Max Marks : 40] [Time : 2 : 45 hrs

Note : 1. This question paper contains three sections (A, B and C)

2. 15 Minutes time is allotted exclusively for reading the question paper and 2 : 30 hours for

writing the answer

3. All the answers are to be written in the answer booklet only.

4. Students can make use of the last pages of the answer booklet for rough work, While

answering the discourses.

SECTION - A

Reading Comprehension (15 Marks)

(Q 1- 7) Read the following passage

The Second World War broke out in 1939, when I was eight years old. For reasons I have never

been able to understand, a sudden demand for tamarind seeds erupted in the market. I used to collect

the seeds and sell them to a provision shop on Mosque Street. A day’s collection would fetch me the

princely sum of one Anna. My brother ­in­low Jallaluddin would tell me stories about the War which

I would later attempt to trace in the headlines in Dinamani. Our area, being isolated, was completely

unaffected by the war. But soon India was forced to join the Allied Forces and something like a state of

emergency was declared. The first casualty came in the form of the suspension of the train halt at

Rameswaram station. The newspapers now had to be bundled and thrown out from the moving train

on the Rameswaram Road between Rameswaram and Dhanuskodi. That forced my cousin Samsuddin,

who distributed newspapers in “Rameswaram, to look for a helping hand to catch the bundles and, as

if naturally, I filled the slot. Samsuddin helped me earn my first wages. Half a century later, I can still

feel the surge of pride in earning my own money for the first time.

Every child is born, with some inherited characteristics, into a specific socio­economic and

emotional environment, and trained in certain ways by figures of authority. I inherited honesty and

self­discipline from my father; from my mother, I inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness and so

did my three brothers and sister. I had three close friends in my childhood­Ramanaddha sastry, Aravindan

and Sivaprakasan. All these boys were from orthodox Hindu Brahmin families. As children, none of us

ever felt any differences and upbringing. In fact, Ramanadha Sastrty was the son of Pakshi Lakshmana

Sastry , the high priest of the Rameswwaram temple. Later he took over the priesthood of the

Rameswaram temple from his father; Aravindan went into the business of arranging transport for

visiting pilgrims; and Sivaprakasan became a catering contractor for the Southern Railways.

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Now, Answer the following questions. Each question has four choices. Choose the correct answer

and write A, B, C or D in your answer booklet.4 × 1 = 4

1. Anna was called a pricey sum because

(A) Narrator was big brother. (B) Anna was older brother.

(C) Anna stayed in Mosque Street. (D) That was a large sum those days.

2. Authors friends during his childhood belongs to

(A) orthodox Brahamins families (B) Orthodox muslim families

(C) Orthodox Christian families (D) All the religious.

3. Dinamani was

(A) Wife of Jallaluddin (B) head line

(C) Newspaper (D) Narrators aunt

4. Who became catering contractor for the Southern Railways?

(A) Abdul Khan (B) Ramanadha

(C) Aravindan (D) Siva Prakasan

Answer the following questions in two or three sentences 3 × 2 = 6

5. Why were newspapers thrown out of moving train?

6. What did the author inherit from his parents?

7. What would you do with yours first earning?

(Q. Nos. 8 - 12) Read the following passage from “The Storeyed” House Part - II.

Mr. Sunday Nana, his wife and four small children live in Koko Village, Nigeria. The village islike any other African village­picturesque, colorful and noisy. The Nana family’s house too is the sameas all the other houses in the village with mud walls and a rusting corrugated iron roof, and withchildren and chickens sharing the compound.

There is one difference, however: outside Mr. Nana’s front are three large empty metal drums,the brightly red paint now flaking away, but the skull and crossbones symbol clearly visible on each.And in a clearing 200m away from the village next to a stream that village get their drinking waterfrom, is an enormous pyramid of identical drums, reaching to the sky. Some of them are badly corroded,their slimy contents of various ­ grey dark green, bright orange, etc.­ leaking out, down, on the bakedAfrican earth and into the stream. Some have fallen down and rolled or been rolled by playful children­ into the bush. Some are smoking the midday head. Some are swelling as if their contents are burstingto get out. Some have already burst.

“They came on Wednesday”, said Sunday, “Many, many big lorries. They tool all day unloadingthem. No one told us what was in them .They gave the Chief a brown paper bag­ I saw him smiling asthe Lorries drove away. This was five years ago. Then three months ago, one of the brightest boys inthe village­ Thomas Agonyo­started university in Lagos. He came home one weekend with a newChemistry book and spent all days looking at the drums and writing things down and talking to himselfand shaking his head. We all thought he had gone mind. Then he called a meeting of the village andtold us that the drums contained poisonous chemicals. He did they had come from Italy. But I don’t’

know where that is. Is it in Europe?

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Now, Answer the following questions. Each question has four choices. Choose the correct answer

and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.

3 × 1 = 3

8. Nana’s house is

(A) a storeyed building

(B) picturesque, colourful and noisy

(C) with mud walls and a rushing corrugated iron roof

(D) a thatched roofed hut

9. “They came on Wednesday” who are “they” referred to

(A) the people who brought the drums (B) the big lorries

(C) the big drums (D) the Italians

10. What is Visible on the empty metal drum

(A) bright red point flaking away (B) skull and cross bones symbol

(C) poisons symbol (D) symbol of swastika

Now answer the following questions in one or two sentences. 2 × 1 = 2

11. why has Italy dumped the drums containing poisonous chemicals in Nana’s village?

12. why was the chief smiling as the lorries drove away?

SECTION - B

Vocabulary and Grammar (10 Marks)

(Q. Nos. 13 - 17) Read the passage give below. Five sentences in the passage numbered (13 - 17)

at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct and re-write them in the answer

booklet.

5 × 1 = 5

He came from (13) the poor but educated family. His father was a high school teacher and

(14) a avid reader of English literature. He, like all the boys in his class, was trying to get admission

(15) to some engineering college. The brighter ones wanted to study (16) at the Indian institute of

technology or the IITs. There was an entrance test for IIT. This boy, along with (17) her friends applied

to appear for the test.

(Q.No. 18 - 22) Complete the passage choosing the right word from those given below it. Each

blank is numbered and for each blank four choices (A), (B), (C) and (D) are given. Choose the

correct answer from these choices and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.

5 × 1 = 5

Female butterflies lay tiny eggs on green leaves (18) about ten days the eggs hatch

(19) tiny insects come out. They are called caterpillars. They eat the green leaves and grow

bigger and bigger soon they (20) cases for themselves. These cases (21) hard

and shiny. Inside these cases the caterpillars turn (22) butterflies.

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18. (A) by (B) for (C) at (D) in

19. (A) but (B) and (C) so (D) though

20. (A) made (B) will make (C) make (D) are making

21. (A) are (B) will be (C) were (D) being

22. (A) to (B) in (C) into (D) as

SECTION - C

Creative Writing (Discourses) (15 Marks)

23. Read the following story. 10

Once a rich man had a number of servants. One day he found his cash box missing. He searched

for the missing box but no trace of the theft was found.

He was dead sure that no outsider could steal the box. His suspicion fell upon his servants who

were in know of the stolen box. But how to catch the thief was a problem for him. At last he thought of

a plan.

He sent for his servants and giving each one a stick, said, “the stick of the person who is the thief,

will grow longer by an inch. So being your stick tomorrow for inspection. “The real thief said to

himself, “If I cut an inch off the end of my stick, tomorrow it will be of the same length as the others,

“so he cut his stick to avoid detection.

On the next day the rich man inspected the sticks of his servants. But the thief s was an inch

shorter than those of the other servants. Thus the thief was caught. The thief admitted his guilt.

Based on the story given above write possible conversation between the master and the

servants.

(or)

Describe the thoughts of the rich man when he could not find his cash box. 10

24. Read the following:

Your school has decided to organise a programme to bring awareness among people about the

safety measures to be taken to prevent from swine flu disease which is spreading in your city.

You are secretary, Health club, Government school kandkur. Write a notice regarding the

programme you are organising. 5